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The Mughal Gift To The Indian Cuisine: Malai Kofta

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Have you ever had anything so confusing as to if it’s a vegetarian dish or a non-vegetarian dish? Malai Kofta is the meatball saviour of all vegetarians and is good enough to be preferred by some non-vegetarians as well. It is essentially a north Indian with Mughal origins or roots stemming out from its previous reiterations such as the Nargis Kofta. What is Malai Kofta? Malai Kofta It is basically and authentically balls made of various vegetables like potatoes, raw bananas, carrots, sweet potatoes various other root vegetables along with greens such as chillies, peas, coriander etc married with a perfect combination of spices that elevates it taste to this amazingly delicious and rich tasting koftas. Often time paneer or cottage cheese is used as stuffing along with kismis, kajus, pistas, almonds etc. to make it more sweet tasting if the traditional savor y spicy one is not preferred. Then such dumplings or balls are cooked in gravy made of cream or yogurt accompanied w...